Before I was a genius, I was a drudge - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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EVGA delivers X58 Intel board
ONE OF THE most annoying parts of this job is being right long before anyone else.
Readers and vendors tend to dump on you, then forget you were right when the time comes. That has especially been the case with EVGA and its move to a new x58 Intel board.
We wrote that EVGA jumped ship to someone, and that someone was not ATI. People laughed.
EVGA pitched a hypocritical hissyfit. Three months later, the firm announces an Intel board. It would have announced a Larrabee board too, if that project wasn't woefully behind schedule. It would have happened sooner, but the EVGA P45 board project died a flaming death a bit ago.
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Back to the board, however, it looks an adequate mid-range x58 product, not excessively overboard like some of the Asus and Gigabyte boards, just adequate cooling and a full feature set. From the pictures, We can't tell if they use the NV200 PCIe decelerator chips, but given the lack of heatsinks in the area, we doubt it.
Other than that, it has 10 SATA ports, meaning they put in an external SATA/RAID chip, 8 USB, and even eSATA. It is fairly loaded without all the frilly stuff. The only real criticism that can be slung around now is about a name. The tuning utility is called E-LEET. Doesn't that make you cringe and die a little inside?
End result, you have a decent looking board, far too touchy a company, all surrounded by moronic fanbois who make the Apple mob look educated and classy. What a combination. ยต
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Calling Reader Moronic is More Reflection of writer. Yet I take it 200 graphics chip between cpu. memory & game slots, slots tender new #1 bit. After all, its mere 800 million transistors or less. While wheres any news of Dunnington?
Stewie Dunnington
I love how everyone on the previous article is pmsing about Charlie and how he has an agenda but now he is right and I don't see any comments now lol.
All the name callers in that other thread now look really stupid.
Love your articles Charlie. I am unfortunately one of those guys with the G92 chips. But your work, especially on those chips has been fantastic.
Think I'll go back to ATI. I've been unimpressed with Nvidia. There software doesn't work with there hardware. I can never get everything working in Ntune, unless I downgrade the drivers to the original release package.

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oh! we were going to forget.. anything related to nvidia is defective and/or crippled. thanks charleee
The color scheme will go well with my GTX290s.
"Some other party who can suddenly compete on gfx out of the blue? hmm...

posted by : quizzical, 21 July 2008 "

Yes quizzical they did come out of the blue, and its team blue, :P

Indeed Charlie was right since July.
Keep it up (Y)

Now whining mofos, step up and try to flame him now!! (there was one name "Dirty Pirate Hooker" who promised to eat his foot lol).
Considering Nvidia don't have the rights to make a chipset for Nehalem, it was pretty obvious EVGA were going to make an X58 board.

why would they wanna lose out on the Nehalem market just because they can't be in bed with Nvidia?

Didn't take a genius to work it out.
I admit it. I called it wrong. From my point of view they looked like one of nVidia's main retailer vendors and that they were unable to get away.

eVga smells the money from the possibility of SLI/Crossfire off these board and I don't blame them.
nVidia will make 5$ for each board without doing anything...
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/23/money-makes-sli-sli-makes-money

The inquirer says that
Here
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/23/nvidia-denies-partner-cuts
Yet again, after years of getting info before Toms, Ars, and every other site out there, the INQ is correct...again...as usual. I don't understand how people are still saying INQ isn't reliable. Now they make themselves look stupid, yet again.
I would not call EVGA selling a non-Nvidia chipset based motherboard "jumping ship". Jumping ship would be them not selling Nvidia products anymore and selling a close competitor's products, like AMD. This is not news, and definitely not some sort of "proof" that you guys got it right. If you ask me, you are/were as over-reactive as EVGA was in all this mess you created. Calling EVGA as a ship jumper just because they decided to sell a board that did not have an Nvidia logo on it.....genious.....:rolleyes:
Not even close from what I can see. Jumping ship would be dropping Nvidia all together. Adding an X-58 board isn't the same thing. Now if they never announce another Nvidia board then that would prove that EVGA had "jumped ship" but I don't think you can truthfully say they have jumped ship now.
charlie, i'm going to let you in on a little secret... *whispers* evga has been in the motherboard business for years... shhhhhh. don't tell anyone!

and because our friend and pretend journalist charlie hasn't noticed, i'll take the liberty to point this out here. the board is set up for 3-way SLI. so, in a year when evga is still making products for nvidia, i'll be here to rub your wrongness in your face charlie.
okay everybody, time for some linear thinking! nvidia has been producing intel chipsets for many years and giving evga a sweet discount in the process because they don't use any competing equipment. but wait! nvidia doesn't have a qpi licence! so nvidia doesn't produce a competing product to the x58, therefor evga will produce an x58 board (and probably get a discount on the sli licence, if they even have to pay) because they aren't hurting nvidia's business. they're helping nvidia buy setting this board up for tri-sli, and selling nvidia graphics cards to go with it. there is no "jumping ship" to be found in these waters. and my spite is truely only in return "ONE OF THE most annoying parts of this job is being right long before anyone else." because, you know, that's not spiteful or egotistical at all....

charlie seems to have some decent connections in the industry, i just wish his articles had a little less tantrum and a little more news.
I'm glad Charlie is right about something. I was getting worried, if he can only keep this up you might actual provide useful information. I might start taking you seriously again.
Charlie just owned the haters.
I usually don't comment on articles but I just had to after reading some of the really idiotic comments I've just read.
Come on people, are you really so upset you have to try and twist his words to make yourself feel like you were not wrong? I'm talking about the guy who is debating what Charlie meant when he said "Jump ship". Maybe not the most precise language but he is right, they are paying Intel for a chipset to use in a motherboard. They may also be paying $5 for the SLI lic. but the bulk of the lic. fees are going to Intel on this one. 
Also, to "are you confused?", I always wonder what motivates people to be so spiteful an angry on a website's forum. Do you have poor self-esteem? Do you derive your identity from your ownership of Nvidia products? Do you have an inconceivably small penis? I just don't get it. 
Anyway, thanks for the great articles, as always.
Its not entirely leaving nVidia but bringing Intel onboard proves YOU WERE RIGHT MAN!! It was amusing to read all the comments on the previous article. Nice job Charlie!!!
Mr. "foole", i'm going to let you in on a little secret... *whispers* evga has been in the motherboard business for years, but this is the first time they do an INTEL chipset... shhhhhh. don't tell anyone! 

Take a look at this: http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?switch=5
can you find me any chipset other than Nforce and GeForce?

Charlie was right, and i'm here to rub your wrongness in your face, foole. Shame on you!
Charlie once again has no idea what he is talking about. He's framing it like this is some big blow against nVidia. Hello, nVidia themselves are the ones who approved the use of SLI on non-nVidia motherboards. This wasn't some sneaky backhanded move on the part of EVGA. The EVGA X58 is the only X58 board to support tri-SLI. That means it is for people who want to buy a lot of expensive nVidia graphics cards. All nVidia is doing is expanding their competitive reach by no longer requiring proprietary boards for SLI.